Diva Dance on a bender? Where the lines don’t cross in Diva Dance, in this tangleation they do.

Ribbon Rose is a tangle from former Florida CZT Alice Hendon. Usually people move to Florida from “the North”, but two years ago Alice and her husband went against the tide and left Florida for Maine.

Alice writes,

I currently live in Maine where I focus mostly on tangling, art, and publishing.

I admin a very active Facebook group called Tangle All Around where I provide weekly prompts and challenges to inspire and develop your tangle journey.

My go-to tangle is printemps. I was playing with the swirly, loopy lines of printemps one day – exploring where they could take me. What came out of my pen was Ribbon Rose.

I have since used it in several pieces of artwork and had some of that artwork featured during World Watercolor Month where I was a featured artist.

In describing how to add the rounding to Ribbon Rose, Alice notes “Pick out a few lines where you can enhance a line or you can fill it in with a little color and make it wider. You’re gonna darken up some areas, it doesn’t have to necessarily be all the outer edges. That’s typically where I start though.”

Ribbon Rose is easy peasy and I bet you’ll have fun with this one.

Alice illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Ribbon Rose below and she features it in a lovely tile with the Zentangle-originals Printemps and bits of Tipple.

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In this video Alice explains how she tangles Ribbon Rose while demonstrating it on Hahnemühle Watercolor paper.

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Beautiful tangle. And so much fun to draw. I love Diva Dance Rock & Roll already but this just adds another dimension to it. It’s going to be one of my favorites, I’m sure. Thanks for sharing this one with us Alice.

Linda, thank you so much for putting up 2 wonderful tangles today. Paradox and Diva Dance are already my favorites and these tangles – Paradox Reversed and Ribbon Rose – take these ideas even further. I love them both. I don’t really think it was a mistake to put this one out today. LOL

Wonderful tangle, Alice. This is going into my toolkit as a teaching tangle for rounding along with variations that one might describe as “Ribbon B-fly”and “Ribbon Hearts”. You will, of course, be given credit for the concept.

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